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Forum: Death Knights 07/23/10, 2:40 PM
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Posted By Decaying
Kyin77's original question was if a frost subspec...

Kyin77's original question was if a frost subspec obliterate build was worth using over an unholy subspec death strike build, to which the answer is "No". While a frost subspec death strike build is...
Forum: Death Knights 07/23/10, 12:37 PM
Replies: 1,423
Views: 2,666,420
Posted By Decaying
Re-run the sims to show non damaging abilities...

Re-run the sims to show non damaging abilities and post both full results. I assume you're using GoD, correct?

Edit: I looked at your DS sim results above and don't see any necrosis or bcb entries....
Forum: Death Knights 07/23/10, 10:35 AM
Replies: 1,423
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Posted By Decaying
Your analysis is wrong. Post your full DS sim...

Your analysis is wrong. Post your full DS sim results and I'll go into more detail. This has been simmed before, and shown to not be viable. You can also tell it's not viable just by reviewing the...
Forum: Death Knights 05/04/10, 1:55 AM
Replies: 1,800
Views: 2,520,601
Posted By Decaying
I was never able to provide a Festergut parse as...

I was never able to provide a Festergut parse as 2H frost. I did attempt it on Saurfang, and while I remember putting out about 13k - I wasn't happy with my performance, as I hadn't quite gotten...
Forum: Death Knights 05/04/10, 1:44 AM
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Posted By Decaying
The problem is that Blood has too many...

The problem is that Blood has too many requirements to meet to flourish.

As far as DK specs go for end-game content currently its largely as follows:

Does your raid have Crypt Fever/EPB? If...
Forum: Death Knights 05/04/10, 1:19 AM
Replies: 3,498
Views: 6,212,020
Posted By Decaying
There's actually a post in the Blood thread that...

There's actually a post in the Blood thread that I'll respond to mainly - however my opinion is that Blood is fine for LK 25H, provided your raid and your gear meet the stringent requirements for...
Forum: Death Knights 05/03/10, 11:44 AM
Replies: 3,498
Views: 6,212,020
Posted By Decaying
I tested reaping/GoD with ~1300 armor pen a few...

I tested reaping/GoD with ~1300 armor pen a few weeks ago, and while I wasn't perfect with my rotation, the results were not terrible on Festergut 25H. I parsed around 13.6K, which was about 500-600...
Forum: Death Knights 04/13/10, 12:49 PM
Replies: 3,498
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Posted By Decaying
I disagree - you're only pulling data from...

I disagree - you're only pulling data from WorldofLogs (and no WMO). For Festergut 25H, I have yet to see someone top my blood parse from last week, without a ridiculous amount of Tricks of the...
Forum: Death Knights 04/12/10, 12:47 PM
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Posted By Decaying
I would be willing to test a 2H Frost build with...

I would be willing to test a 2H Frost build with Shadowmourne this Tuesday on Festergut 25H. I would like to see some additional theorycrafting to optimize a build however. Bear in mind that I am...
Forum: Death Knights 04/02/10, 9:52 PM
Replies: 1,423
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Posted By Decaying
Right - and that is about a 1% chance to miss on...

Right - and that is about a 1% chance to miss on all spells, which means that you will see misses occur on icy touch and pestilence during a night of raiding.

And parries are definitely not entirely...
Forum: Death Knights 04/02/10, 2:07 PM
Replies: 1,423
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Posted By Decaying
This is not true. You will still see Icy...

This is not true. You will still see Icy Touch/Pestilence misses. Most fights in ICC also feature situations where the boss is not stationary and/or turns to randomly target raid members with...
Forum: Death Knights 03/12/10, 3:31 PM
Replies: 1,423
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Posted By Decaying
Strange, myself and a guildmate tested this on...

Strange, myself and a guildmate tested this on live last night and everytime we were able to get it to work. I'll try it again tonight.
Forum: Death Knights 03/12/10, 12:32 PM
Replies: 1,423
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Posted By Decaying
We've already been over DRW and why autoattack...

We've already been over DRW and why autoattack makes up the majority of it's damage output.

Your simming is flawed:

1). You're using a generic gearset that was built for unholy - it only has about...
Forum: Death Knights 03/11/10, 9:31 PM
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Posted By Decaying
In the WOL you linked autoattack is close to 70%...

In the WOL you linked autoattack is close to 70% of the DRW's total damage. Furthermore, the average crit is showing at almost 9k - the max crit would be even higher. Another thing to consider is...
Forum: Death Knights 03/11/10, 12:02 PM
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Posted By Decaying
What verification did you do? DRW clearly gets a...

What verification did you do? DRW clearly gets a boost in the Blood Queen encounter. DRW autoattacks are hitting for over 12k on that fight - I have yet to see a non-gimmick log where it's able to...
Forum: Paladins 02/02/10, 6:40 PM
Replies: 659
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Posted By Decaying
I'll have to see if I can dig it up - but several...

I'll have to see if I can dig it up - but several months ago there was a 1 handed axe data-mined that had a 271 ilvl. Since this doesn't match heroic 10 man (264) or heroic 25 man (277), I had...
Forum: Death Knights 01/19/10, 9:51 PM
Replies: 1,423
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Posted By Decaying
100-150 RP would be around an extra 15,000 damage...

100-150 RP would be around an extra 15,000 damage - in a 4 minute festergut kill thats around 60 dps. So its far below Blood Worms even in a fight its optimal for (and suboptimal for worms due to...
Forum: Death Knights 01/19/10, 7:04 PM
Replies: 1,423
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Posted By Decaying
Not a chance - Blood already suffers with GCD...

Not a chance - Blood already suffers with GCD clashes too much to make use of all the RP you're already getting, resulting in already wasted RP.

Bloodworms on the other hand were about 124 dps for...
Forum: Death Knights 01/19/10, 7:01 PM
Replies: 1,423
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Posted By Decaying
Right now that is the #1 DK dps on WMO (for all...

Right now that is the #1 DK dps on WMO (for all specs) - but if you look closer you'll see that he hit the lottery and 19 out of 22 Deathstrike's were crits, giving him a 86.3% crit rate on the...
Forum: Death Knights 01/15/10, 11:43 PM
Replies: 1,423
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Posted By Decaying
I tested this for about 15 minutes last week. ...

I tested this for about 15 minutes last week. Motes do in fact proc off of the HS cleave. I wasn't particularly impressed with the trinket overall, but it wasn't comprehensive in any sense of the...
Forum: Death Knights 01/06/10, 7:20 PM
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Posted By Decaying
Using fairly recent stat weights for my gear (a...

Using fairly recent stat weights for my gear (a week or two old)

Haste - 2.08
Armor Pen - 3.18

It's a DPS loss until between 1000-1100 worn armor pen at which point it pulls even, and haste on the...
Forum: Death Knights 01/06/10, 6:28 PM
Replies: 1,423
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Posted By Decaying
I can confirm that as of 10 minutes ago,...

I can confirm that as of 10 minutes ago, Deathbringer's Will is now proccing Speed of the Vrykul (Haste) as Blood. I have not seen any Precision of the Iron Dwarves (Armor Pen) procs yet. I can't...
Forum: Death Knights 12/22/09, 1:10 PM
Replies: 1,423
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Posted By Decaying
If you're looking for data to compare overall...

If you're looking for data to compare overall performance between the three talent trees - I suggest WMO. They reset the scoreboards after the Scourge Strike hotfix (and the Hunger for Blood...
Forum: Paladins 11/17/09, 6:18 PM
Replies: 264
Views: 146,923
Posted By Decaying
A long time ago all damage procs scaled with...

A long time ago all damage procs scaled with spellpower. Blizzard made a concerted effort to nerf this behavior quite some time ago. There were a few types of procs that up until recently were...
Forum: Death Knights 09/12/09, 2:26 AM
Replies: 1,423
Views: 2,666,420
Posted By Decaying
Döc - I was curious to see this in action, so I...

Döc - I was curious to see this in action, so I pulled you up on Worldoflogs.com and was browsing your Algalon kill to get a good idea of what you're hitting for - it lists you as using blood strike...
Forum: Death Knights 09/10/09, 7:31 PM
Replies: 1,423
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Posted By Decaying
Some PTR testing.. The "meh" news: Tried...

Some PTR testing..

The "meh" news:

Tried testing HS is normal gear on lowbie target dummies in Acherus - didn't get much useful data. I would get an instance of 9600 primary/9200 cleave, and then...
Forum: Death Knights 09/09/09, 7:35 PM
Replies: 1,423
Views: 2,666,420
Posted By Decaying
It's hard to tell - it could mean that they...

It's hard to tell - it could mean that they increased the effect of diseases by 10% each for:

10% (original)+ 10% = 20% per disease and then half that for the second target (original 10%), but I...
Forum: Death Knights 08/31/09, 7:09 PM
Replies: 707
Views: 1,587,612
Posted By Decaying
I've already seen people with the axe from FC-25...

I've already seen people with the axe from FC-25 that don't have Hodir HM achievement on 25. This is reasonable.
Forum: The Dung Heap 08/31/09, 5:48 PM
Replies: 30,098
Views: 1,877,647
Posted By Decaying
I don't see a personal attack anywhere - just...

I don't see a personal attack anywhere - just questioning your credentials. You can check mine because my armory link works and I have dozens of parses available on WMO. I was able to track down...
Forum: The Dung Heap 08/31/09, 3:29 PM
Replies: 30,098
Views: 1,877,647
Posted By Decaying
You know, I was going to argue with you some...

You know, I was going to argue with you some more, however I wanted to find out some more about your background. Unfortunately, your armory link is invalid and I can see that you've transferred at...
Forum: Death Knights 08/31/09, 1:42 PM
Replies: 1,423
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Posted By Decaying
Link? It must be in a thread I don't frequent,...

Link? It must be in a thread I don't frequent, last I checked str/arp were still ahead of both hit and expertise. I still haven't seen any "final" stat weights for 3.2. I've seen some estimates...
Forum: Death Knights 08/31/09, 1:34 AM
Replies: 1,423
Views: 2,666,420
Posted By Decaying
Honestly - what did you think the softcap was...

Honestly - what did you think the softcap was for? If we didn't get dodged when attacking from behind, why would we ever take anything with expertise on it?

Expertise capping isn't worth gemming...
Forum: Death Knights 08/17/09, 10:48 AM
Replies: 1,423
Views: 2,666,420
Posted By Decaying
Did you even bother reading the follow up posts? ...

Did you even bother reading the follow up posts? Also, a lot of classes saw similar bonuses on their t8 sets (rogues, elemental shamans), and some of those are potentially larger increase than our...
Forum: Death Knights 07/16/09, 7:02 PM
Replies: 1,423
Views: 2,666,420
Posted By Decaying
Actually, this is almost possible using current...

Actually, this is almost possible using current gear, and gemming for ARP, as well as ARP elixir and food. It may even be possible just by updating all gems to the new epic quality ones. I've been...
Forum: Death Knights 06/30/09, 9:45 AM
Replies: 1,423
Views: 2,666,420
Posted By Decaying
In addition to this - something that I haven't...

In addition to this - something that I haven't seen mentioned a lot is that if you're not having to pool 100 RP To activate DRW, you can pop it very close to the beginning of the fight. Needing 100...
Forum: Death Knights 06/24/09, 7:57 PM
Replies: 1,423
Views: 2,666,420
Posted By Decaying
Well - to be fair, the top Rogue/Druid parses for...

Well - to be fair, the top Rogue/Druid parses for XT25 hard mode are 8K-8.5k dps
Forum: Death Knights 06/24/09, 6:54 PM
Replies: 1,423
Views: 2,666,420
Posted By Decaying
Hm, I disagree - my XT 25 HM parse from last...

Hm, I disagree - my XT 25 HM parse from last night was just under 7.4k DPS, and only had 75k dmg to sparks - which works out to around 150 dps or so. I see some improvements that could be made from...
Forum: Death Knights 06/17/09, 6:41 PM
Replies: 1,423
Views: 2,666,420
Posted By Decaying
Why are you still trying to push something that's...

Why are you still trying to push something that's been beaten to death for months?

As far as your "proof" by linking WMO parses - please actually look at them before posting them as evidence. ...
Forum: Death Knights 06/10/09, 9:56 AM
Replies: 1,423
Views: 2,666,420
Posted By Decaying
So in your effort to prove that taking UB over...

So in your effort to prove that taking UB over DRW you instead prove that 100% uptime on UB is a loss over not using it at all? I dont understand how you came to the conclusion that this means UB is...
Forum: Death Knights 06/06/09, 4:51 PM
Replies: 1,423
Views: 2,666,420
Posted By Decaying
I'ts definitely doable - assuming he's talking...

I'ts definitely doable - assuming he's talking about having the 10% AP buff already. I sit at around 7200 (little over 6500 prior to 10% AP) raid buffed with 10% AP buff active - but I'm gemmed for...
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